COUNTERBLAST: A Modest Proposal: Open Letter to The Home Secretary Calling for the Expansion of 'Prayer for Policing'
COUNTERBLAST: A Modest Proposal: Open Letter to The Home Secretary Calling for the Expansion of 'Prayer for Policing'
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反击：一个温和的建议：致内政大臣的公开信，呼吁扩大“为警务祈祷”
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10.1111/j.1468-2311.2010.00620.x
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2010
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FARRELL G
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亲爱的约翰逊先生，我们写信赞扬听到你的内政部最近如何资助基督教警察协会与d10000，以促进“祈祷警务”（独立2010年;每日电讯报2010年）。你似乎已经激励其他警察声称祈祷减少犯罪（每日快报2010;西部晨报2010）。然而，我们担心你的努力可能太有限，特别是因为它可能只支持一个宗教。英国的多元文化社会有着多种多样的信仰，因此为了避免歧视，他们的所有祈祷都必须得到内政部的资助。这将需要额外的开支，因此我们在此就广泛的研究和评价议程提供一些初步指导。然后，如果某些宗教对减少犯罪的影响比其他宗教更好，你就有了相应分配纳税人资金所需的信息。你更迫切的目标必须是确定窃贼联盟和联合贸易是否可以抵消警察祈祷自己的祈祷。我们还需要知道任何祈祷的效果是否有地理范围。如果没有，内政部应该建立一个中央祈祷单位，以覆盖全国。关于祈祷风格，我们需要研究，以确定是否一个整洁的措辞努力最好的工作。也可能是对独创性的奖励，或者相反，对传统的奖励。长时间的祷告能阻止严重的犯罪吗？更狂热的屈服能缓和恐怖主义吗？主要宗教的比较效果也应该评估--基督徒、穆斯林、印度教徒和巴哈伊教徒的祈祷是否都有相同的影响？是不是某些神最不赞成的罪行影响更大？如果是这样的话，也许摩门教徒在打击非法毒品犯罪方面更有效（但不是一夫多妻制）？也许异教徒的吟唱是环境犯罪的灵丹妙药。儿童性虐待和祈祷的天主教神父之间似乎已经有了联系。
Dear Mr Johnson We write with praise on hearing how your Home Office recently funded the Christian Police Association with d10, 000 to promote ‘prayer for policing’(Independent 2010; Daily Telegraph 2010). You appear to have already inspired other police officers to claim prayer reduces crime (Daily Express 2010; Western Morning News 2010). However, we are concerned that your effort may be too limited, particularly insofar as it may be supporting only one religion. Britain’s multicultural society has many and varied faiths, so to avoid discrimination all their prayers must be answered with Home Office funding. This will require additional expenditure, so here we offer some preliminary guidance on a broad agenda of research and evaluation. Then, if the per-prayer crime reduction impact of some religions is better than others, you will have the information needed to allocate taxpayers’ money accordingly. Among your more pressing aims must be to determine whether the Union of Burglars and Allied Trades can offset police prayer by prayers of their own. We also need to know whether any prayer effect has a geographic range. If not, the Home Office should establish a Central Prayer Unit to cover the country.With regard to prayer style, we need research to identify whether a neatlyworded effort works best. There may also be a premium for originality or, conversely, for tradition. Does lengthy prayer stem serious crime? Can more fervent prostration temper terrorism? The comparative effects of major religions should also be assessed–do prayers of Christians, Muslims, Hindus and the Baha’i all impact uniformly? Is the impact greater for crimes of which particular Gods disapprove most? If so, maybe Mormons are more effective against illicit drug-related crime (but not polygamy)? Perhaps pagan chanting is the panacea for environmental crime. There already seems to be a link between child sexual abuse and praying Catholic priests.